Gifts of Chocolate Paper Part 1

As you know, from time to time here on The Chocolate Cult we talk about labor, agriculture, trade, health, your rights as a consumer, and charities that are associated with chocolate.  While we primarily feature food or drink in our Sacraments, we do include other products from time to time.  Today I want to share some of the interesting chocolate paper products we were sent by the Cocoa Paper

Chocolate in April 2012

There are not that many fun food holidays for chocolate in April but we do have Easter this year for western Christians on April 8th and for the Greek Orthodox tradition on the 15th of April.

Here are some other fun food holidays you might want to note that you could use Chocolate to mark.  If you know of any others, please leave a comment and let us know.

April 3 = on this day in 1892 the Ice

A Cadbury Easter

My UK readers will know Cadbury and I think a fair number of my North American readers will as well.  Cadbury is a fairly old name in chocolate.  Today, in time for Easter we're going to look at two treats I found in our nearby stores.  One of them is the Cadbury Egg and one is a Milk Chocolate Bunny.  I found these are our Target store, I didn't see them any where else and that surprised me

MilkyWay Simply Caramel Bar

Remember my trip to CVS where I said I found some newer varieties of old favorites, Sisters and Brothers?  Well today I'm going to review the second of these three bars for you all: the MilkyWay Simply Caramel bar.  MilkyWays traditionally have what in them?  Chocolate coating, nougat, and some caramel, right?  So this then should be the same bar without the nougat.  Some folks like that nougat

Totally Chocolate Easter Basket

Taraluna has a close relationship with Sjaak's and this means they carry a lot of Sjaak's products day in and day out, but especially for the holidays.  Easter 2012 is no exception and they sent us this adorable little Easter basket made by Sjaak's.  As you can see it is a milk chocolate basket, a milk chocolate bunny, and in this photo you see two of the three milk chocolate eggs as well as a

Peeps & Whoppers Easter 2012

To start off the general product reviews for 2012's Easter, let's look at two treats: Peeps and Whoppers.  This review was pre-written around Easter last year so you'll need to tell me, Sisters and Brothers, if you have seen these treats this year.

Peeps are those color marshmallow treats that I always saw around Easter time and then no other.  In the past decade they've started making Peeps for

Recipe: Green Velvet Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

It isn't St. Patrick's Day any more, that was two days ago.  I debated whether or not I should write this post or pre-write it for next year.  Then I realized that I see other blogging re-promote old posts all the time so I can always remind you of this post next year, too.  My ancestors were Irish, some of them, but since we aren't Catholic we never did anything particularly sacred for the date.

Italian Easter Bunny

For one final featured review, we turn again to PastaCheese before Easter for a lovely selection of holiday chocolates. Your Chocolate Priestess lived in Italy from August 1990 to May 1991, my junior year of college, and my spring break was right before Easter; just like this year though I don't have spring break any more.  I don't recall seeing chocolate bunnies when I wandered around Sicily

MARS Easter Options 2012

We've seen egg shaped and bunny shaped candies for Easter since probably before your Chocolate Priestess was born in 1969.  Today I want to look at two MARS treats that I have seen available in our local stores for years now.  This post was pre-written last Easter so that I've have things for you to read before the fabulous Sacraments we've been featuring as we approach Easter 2012.  As always,

3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bar

Not long ago I saw a few new varieties of some candy bars I grew up eating on sale in one of our nearby CVS stores.   We have two of these places within a mile of my house and they are much more an a block and a half apart.  I'm surprised they have survived for years now but depending on the direction you are traveling maybe it is easier to get to one over the other.  One is certainly larger

Old Time Candy Part 2

This Saturday Sacrament returns to that huge "Chocolate Lovers Box" from Old Time Candy.  There will be two more featured reviews to follow but today we're going to focus on 10 more candy bars from the collection that I hope some of you, Sisters and Brothers, will have a few comments about.  Our first foray into this four part review talked about the purpose of this shop but today I want to let

International Women's Day & Chocolate

In the Western world we often think that chocolate is more a woman and girl's treat than for boys and men, yet we have many volunteers, readers, and commenters here on The Chocolate Cult who prove that men love chocolate, too.  In fact most of the world's chocolatiers of the highest rank are male yet we've had wonderful chocolates from female chocolatiers from North, Central, and South America.  

Recipe: White Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies

Today is "National White Chocolate Cheesecake" and one of our readers, Sister Coleen H. recommended a white chocolate raspberry recipe. Since I'm not a big raspberry fan and frankly needed something a bit more simple with my arm, I used the website she recommended, All Recipes.com, and just wasn't happy with all the recipes there.

I also didn't want to go shopping.  I had an MRI on Thursday

Lindt Chocolate Spoons

Once more from the Lindt R.S.V.P. program, Amy Sue sent us something very adorable to reveal to you all today.  Remember the chocolate spoons we did not too long ago.  Those were made by an Italian chocolatier who is credited with creating the idea of a chocolate coffee spoon; as we saw they can be used in other ways.  These little spoons, Amy Sue sent us eight of them, are made in the Lindt